The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced its winter Okra Picks, a selection of fresh titles chosen by Southern indie booksellers each season as the upcoming Southern titles they are most looking forward to handselling:
The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics and the Rise of a New Justice Movement by Rev. William J. Barber II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Beacon Press)
Fallen Land by Taylor Brown (St. Martin's)
A Mysterious Life & Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina by Rev. Charlotte S. Riley, edited by Crystal Lucky (University of Wisconsin Press)
The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell (Thomas Nelson)
Forsaken by Ross Howell, Jr. (New South)
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale (Thomas Nelson)
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt (Atria)
The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson (Morrow)
No Shred of Evidence by Charles Todd (Morrow)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (Crown Books for Young Readers)
Hanging Mary by Susan Higginbotham (Sourcebooks Landmark)
No One Knows by J.T. Ellison (Gallery Books)
Dimestore by Lee Smith (Algonquin)
